Satch sues Coldplay

[Jack The Riffer]

Why isn't anybody talking about this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G57CgtX-BsI

[hippietim]

So Satch is pretty much saying his songs are so ghey that they even work for Coldplay.

I can't argue with that

[phill_up]

Why isn't anybody talking about this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G57CgtX-BsI

cuz if you use a wah wah that makes it okay? :think:

[lerxstcat]

Did you see that Gary Moore just got busted for plagiarism?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081203/music_nm/us_moore_1

http://www.dagbladet.no/2008/12/04/k...agiat/3927873/
(Click on the big GM photo to hear the songs)

Now Gary's song was released first, how can the court hold that HE's the plagarist? That seems backwards to me.

[MartinBarre]

Why isn't anybody talking about this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G57CgtX-BsI

Probably because Satch stands to make a lot more money from Coldplay. You're right though, that was exactly the same as Satch's!

[diablomozart]

ya know...i have never bothered to point this out...but if you listen to gary's solo in "still got the blues" it is an almost note for note copy of lionel richie's vocal melody in a song called "hello"...shows that lionel dont care and somebody else is looking to make a buck at gary's expense...d.m.

[Grandturk]

so.... copping licks is now plaguerism? i was jst listening to the wham by srv adnd some extreme tune and the both quote the intro licks to voodoo chile.... gary hoey's hocus pocus cover has some stranglehold by nugein it... theres tons of that stuff.

[sonicsamurai]

i could see satriani's side BUT the chances of a shitty band like coldplay having even the remotest clue who he is, and the fact that given the huge amount of artistic diversity within world music could mean that it is possible to write a lick or melody that sounds similar, possibly identical to something else....so i think anyone with sense might not give him any more than a small portion. also given he his in the big scope of things oinly a minor star likely only to be known to guitarheads or a few outsiders, i fail to see how a grammy nominated award winning band of such stature as coldplay is cutting into the profits of a song that only appears on an album and only a few guitar fans are likely to have heard of...

[rjohnstone]

grammy nominated award winning band of such stature as coldplay.

And that is relevant how?
I do believe Milli Vanilli had a similar status. Oh wait... they actually won their award. Of course they did have to give it back. :ROTF:

[Hellbat]

so.... copping licks is now plaguerism? i was jst listening to the wham by srv adnd some extreme tune and the both quote the intro licks to voodoo chile.... gary hoey's hocus pocus cover has some stranglehold by nugein it... theres tons of that stuff.

Wham was a cover of a Lonnie Mack tune from I believe 1963.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXBlnwuYsmo

Hocus Pocus is also a cover of a song from the band Focus (1973ish).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpV5InLw52U

Jimmy was influenced somewhat by Lonnie if I recall correctly, or at the very least knew of him so the theft you are hearing was probably there. And since the Nuge undoubdedly knew of Focus and Jan Akkerman there may have been some subliminal riff copping there too.

[sonicsamurai]

And that is relevant how?
I do believe Milli Vanilli had a similar status. Oh wait... they actually won their award. Of course they did have to give it back. :ROTF:

its relevant because it helps to illustrate the fact that coldplay are a much bigger and (unfortunately) much more widely respected and acclaimed within the music industry of the populist masses

[sonicsamurai]

so.... copping licks is now plaguerism?

the lemon song by led zep... sorry i meant killing floor by howlin wolf...

[Endrik]

Why isn't anybody talking about this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G57CgtX-BsI

maybe because Satch's guitar sound is so thin and no one wouldn't realize that he ripped them off :ROTF:

funny as a big fan of Argentina's music I've heard that song before but I couldn't compare it to Satch or Coldplay as I just heard their versions today.

[rjohnstone]

its relevant because it helps to illustrate the fact that coldplay are a much bigger and (unfortunately) much more widely respected and acclaimed within the music industry of the populist masses

Your opinion, but I digress.

Again, this is relevant how?
Plagiarism is plagiarism. Ones stature in an industry, real or perceived, is irrelevant.

In your opinion, the niche writer has no claim simply because he lacks some perceived level of popularity?

[hippietim]

I must be the only one that thinks both songs suck.